Civil War and Ethnic Conflict in Post-Soviet Moldova - the Cases of Gagauzia and Transnistria compared

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2003 in the subject Politics - Region: Russia grade: A Central European University Budapest (Department of Political Science) course: Civil War and Ethnic Conflict language: English abstract: This text discusses some of the reasons for ethnic conflicts in Post-Soviet Moldova and compares the unsolved case of Transnistria with the case of the rather unknown Gagauzia which equally aimed for secession from Moldova.